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There's just one kinda of imprisonement & that's imprisonement of the SOUL.One can be confined by four walls and yet be a free man, while those roaming outside might be the one's imprisoned. Imprisoned by thoughts, culture, family & your myopic visions.So do give me freedom but freedom that is soulful. Freedom that no one can take away from me on a whim. Freedom to express all my humanity in all

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Price of booking a round trip ticket b/w Bangalore and Delhi on the Airline website -Rs 6349.Price of booking the same round trip ticket on makemytrip.com a so called premium travel portal in India - Rs 7388.Who are these people trying to fool ?

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How would you like to be a part of this team ?Especially interesting was the profile Marcel Molina Jr. who happened to transition from being a expert on Natural languages to an expert on Machine language ;-) Some transition that !!

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Here's an interesing site highlighting the libertarian philosophy/approach towards life. Click on the below image to enter .. Especially liked the articles by Fred Reed and Douglas Herman .

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This has to be coolest website I have seen for sometime now. Dick Masterson runs Men are Better than Women and got to admit he's got a great sense of humour coupled with a healthy dose of reality thrown into all his articles !!! Good job pal !!

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Finally got some time to post some stuff related to my Europe travel.Germany- I am standing at a busy railway intersection about 50 miles from Frankfurt. There are freight trains whizzing past this intersection every 10 minutes carrying all sorts of industrial merchandize. It's rather hard to cross this intersection quickly due to the frequency of the trains. For a moment you really feel like

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Proud Owner of a Bose Wave Music System from this week on. It really does sound amazing. Check out a review here.

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Yeah...I mean that. The trouble with Indian cricket is with the Senior players who take their place in the team for granted, leaving no room for some talented youngsters to come in. I am sure these guys contributed a lot to the game and scored prolifically at one time but that isn't reason enough to stay in the team forever right ? Look at how the Australians treat players who are past their

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Back again after a 6 Week Business trip to Germany and few other countries in Europe. Saw places, met people, got some work done.....what more can one ask for ?

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NY Times has some great posts this past New Year Week ...Pascal Brukner writes about Happiness in Another last chance to change your Life and here's another Happiness Article Happiness 101BTW in an off topic me thinks Soha Ali Khan is one actress in Bollywood whose got Beauty and Brains. Just look at her face . Radiates with Intelligence I must say.

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Sign of changing times Perhaps ?Unisys to be a Sub-contractor to Wipro BTW completed my half-century (50 Posts) here. Feel pretty good that I can share so much info that's meaningful to me through this channel.

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Stephanie Coontz of the NY Times writes brilliantly on marriage in the 21st century . Makes me wonder....how the hell did the joint family system break up in India ?

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Haven't posted in a while but just found a couple of interesting links worthy of posting.Barack Obama gives the commencement address @ UMass Boston about the challenges facing America Today. Dipak Jain the dean of Kellogg Business School talks about his background and qualities he looks for in Business School Applicants.

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Does "Non-Violence" work ? Was thinking about this during my drive home from work today. Like all tricky questions the question should be first rephrased as - Whom does non-violence work against ?I think "Non-Violence" primarily works against someone who knows the power of violence but thinks twice before using them. Take for example Mao, who said - "All power stems from the Barrel of a Gun".

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I was reading an interesting editorial piece in the "Hindu" today by Pallavi Aiyer wherein she talks about the resurgence of Confucian values in China. These same values were dismissed as outdated some 30 years back when China first began opening up it's markets & started it's foray into global markets. I started to link this story with the revival of interest in Gandhian values in India (after

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India Ascendant .

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Finally some relief from some real crappy FM programming here in Bangalore. Indigo FM the first station that plays only international (read english) tracks is here. So no more listening to crappy Kannada & Hindi RJ's speaking a combo of some 10 different languages. No more listening to artifical dialects from RJ's which nobody in the real world speaks. Here's the station where the RJ's speak only

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The nine management classics that shaped modern management (as per Jim Collins - Author of another classic Good to Great) :- 1. Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers (1962) 2. The Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor (1960) 3. The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981) 4. The Practice of Management by Peter F. Drucker (1954) 5. Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter (1980) 6

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Osho talks about balancing the rational and irrational in the The Last Luxury . A nice read.

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The world needs more passionate people like you mate. Your energy and passion for Wild Animals and Conservation will always be remembered. RIP.

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Hilarious Pic ...

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Michael Noer has an excellent article in Forbes this week where in he quotes research studies to show that marrying a career oriented women would be disastrous to your happiness and marital stability. The article apparently generated so much controversy in the US that Forbes was forced to yank it off it's website, only to re-publish it a day later accompanied with a re-buttal from a female

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Mixing Business and Pleasure during campus recruitments @ NIT (formerly REC) Surathkal this past weekend. Click here for Pics PS:- Surathkal defintely has one of the best beaches in the country.

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My Independence day long weekend took me to the ruins of Vijaynagar empire @ Hampi. Click here for Pics

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Is it possible that Orkut could be a CIA funded initiative to capture every minute details of your personal life ? A proposal such as this would never be able to gain any political/public traction & hence the best way to go about implementing a national/international database that captures all your personal details is to call it a networking community.All one has to do is to check your profile/

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I am getting desperate to travel to some exotic locales. Last week I was looking at some options to travel around Europe without using the Eurail. I found two interesting one's in Eurolines and Busabout both of whom use Buses to take you around Europe. The best part of-course is there's no min/max period in which you need to complete your trip unlike Eurail. You can stay in any city as long as

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What do you think is the most searched term on NY Times ,which is probably the classiest and most cosmopolitan newspaper to be currently in print anywhere in the world ? CLick the below image and be amazed ...

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So just finished with "Memory of my Melancholy Whores" by Garcia. Was a pretty easy read which I think is unlike most of Garcia's works. The book offers perspectives on love and being in love from the point of view of a 90 year old man. Some interesting quotes from the book ..."I never had intimate friends and few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's

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I am able to access Blogspot again and looks like DOT has finally woken up and fixed the problem of blocking the whole domain instead of specific sub-domains. Anyways I know what censorship feels like now. I just hope it doesn't happen again - either deliberate or un-intentional.

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Bought some more books yesterday although I am yet to finish a lot of my previous purchases.... So I have in my shelf now - Memory of my Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) & Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention(Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). Always wanted to read Marquez and I shouldn't have any trouble finishing this as it's just 100 odd pages long. In contrast I

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Here's a collection of some awesome cricket sledges .... Viv Richards v Greg Thomas: This incident took place during a county championship match between Glamorgan and Somerset. Glamorgan quickie Greg Thomas had beaten Viv Richards' bat a couple of times and informed the legendary West Indian ace: " It's red, round and weighs about five ounces, in case you were wondering."The very next ball was

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Here's an interesting article that talks about tendency for introversion among top CEO's ...http://biz.yahoo.com/usat/060606/13582592.html

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Two "New Russians" meet. One of them looks extremely happy and the other one wants to know the reason. The first one shares the secret -"I have to tell you. It's all because of the elephant that I bought recently. It is so good that it has taken over all the work in the house. It cooks, does dishes, re-arranges stuff, vacuums the floor, does the laundry, irons clothes, drives children to school

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So on saturday morning after a pretty hectic week was checking out what exactly Google Trends is all about. I gave some random searches to see which regions were searching them most. Results I must admit were pretty interesting. So here are some of the trends you can see for yourself ...Top cities searching for Sex Top cities searching for Jobs Top cities searching for Marriage Top cities

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Radio -> TV -> Internet -> OrkutEveryone's Connected Now, But the problems are the same oldEveryone's Connected Now, But there's less ConnectednessEveryone's Connected Now, But there's not that magic of the oldEveryone's Connected Now, But there's only more HatredEveryone's Connected Now, But in the end there's only emptiness

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The book that everyone in the IT community has been waiting for is finally here in India.

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Well I was reading Jonathan's Schwartz's (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems) weblog yesterday and I think I just stumbled upon the next big thing in computing - Grid Computing. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060320So what's this Grid computing all about ? In lay man's terms it means all your computing would be done NOT on your PC but on a central grid computer which for all practical

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Currently Reading ....What should I do with my Life By Po Bronson (Yawn !!! I don't think I am gonna finish this)Mediocre But Arrogant By Abhijit Bhaduri (No Offence to the author but how the hell did this get published ?? Every word in this book is filled with college cliches.)

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So this is what it's finally come to ahh!!! According to new law in the US, you stay illegally in the US long enough and voila guess what happens ? Deportation ?? Incarceration ?? No way Jose !! You get something which millions of legal immigrants over the years have struggled to achieve namely ...the US citizenship.I can't help but think about the law abiding Asians in the US (Indians, Chinese

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It's that time of the year and stupid moronic media @ it once again i.e Quoting the top most salary figure for IIM-A and IIM-B grads without giving a complete picture of what an avg IIM graduate actually gets. Rashmi Bansal of YC had a great post on this very issue last year and here's the link :- http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/2005/03/150000-googly.htmlThe critical para which provided a good

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Here's some good career advice from Google VP Sheryl Sandberg ...."The best career advice I ever got was from Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO. I had left my job in the government when the Clinton administration ended and I was interviewing at companies in Silicon Valley. Eric told me that the most important thing to look for in a new job was not the specific responsibilities the company offered,

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Secret of Happiness I believe is to get out of the "Herd mentality" and discover whatever that is which makes you truely happy. Forget society, forget parents, forget everything else. Why isn't the society & upbringing of a child structured to realize his/her true innate potential ?Corporate WorldIn the corporate world to get the role you desire you have to excel in your current role - even if

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Currently reading the all time classic "Think and Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill. Well seems pretty interesting so far. You knew most of the stuff already but it's nice to see someone put these into words. Would highly recommend to all you go-getters out there.

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Dating Rules For SoftwareLook your bestYou don't have to be the Brad Pitt of apps, but you should still make the effort to be pleasant looking. At the least, you should be clean. That whole "it's what's inside that counts" thing? It's true, but chemistry matters too, and we're genetically programmed to be attracted to attractive things. If nothing else, wearing your good shirt and combing your

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Happened to just read this post on Rediff where Microsoft CTO "Craig Mundie" comments on Indian Engineers....http://in.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/07ms.htmAll I can say is this guy should first fix his own system (the US educational System) before commenting on Indian or any other countries System. The lack of research funding which mundie claims as the reason for "poor engineers" is a common

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So, how should one price a product which one plans to introduce into the market ? Conventional theory suggests that you should price the product somewhere in & around your competitor's so that people don't reject your product based on price alone. But all that's changing in the new world order of global economics. The key thing which the new age consumer looks for is "Value" and not "Price".

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Having seen the horrors of capitalism in the US I can never ever support a fully capitalistic society. However this doesn't mean I am in favour of Stalin or Mao's model of un-checked Communism. Any system which provides for CHECKS & BALANCES for those in power would do for me. In that sense I actually like the current setup of the Indian Govt which for all practical purposes is a power share

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Malcolm Gladwell....I love you man.....Great article on the politics of Ivy League Admissions ....http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html

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Bought a ton of books but haven't been able to lay my hands on any due to time constraints. So my "to do" reading list looks something like this....(1) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran(2) The 10 Day MBA by Steven A. Silbiger(3) Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (this one is borrowed actually)(4) Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle(5) Siddharta by Herman HesseNot buying anymore books until I finish these. My wish

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Here's some Key Passages of India's Nuclear Doctrine just for Kicks ;-))"Any threat of use of nuclear weapons against India shall invoke measures to counter the threat and any nuclear attack on India and its forces shall result in punitive retaliation with nuclear weapons to inflict damage unacceptable to the aggressor. ""India's nuclear forces will be effective, enduring, diverse, flexible, and

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I am ....tired of Worktired of Womentired of Lovetired of Traveltired of the Internettired of E-mailtired of Moviestired of Poetrytired of Carstired of Computerstired of "Management Theory"tired of Codingtired of Javatired of the "NewYork Times"tired of Tom Friedmantired of Maureen Dowdtired of Politicstired of the "Corporate Ladder"tired of being Generoustired of Resistingtired of Fashiontired

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Here's an interesting thought about Democracy from the book I just finished reading ("Wisdom Of Groups") ...."Democractic experience is essentially an experience of not getting what you want but knowing that you'll have another chance/opportunity to get whatever that is you're after. They key thing is you don't destroy something becoz you don't have it right now. "Pretty profound I must say.....

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Have been following the riots in & around Paris and I have to say this was something that was waiting to happen in the Western World. So we have scores of un-employed youth who are all mostly Muslim all around Europe. These people want to be accepted into mainstream European culture but the Europeans won't let them into their homes and club houses. Most of these folks have seen the real European

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Here's an interesting PPT on how Bell Labs creates Star Performers out of Ordinary Folks. Would highly recommend this approach to any knowledge based organization wishing to create value for it's employees.http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~mschakra/belllabs.pps

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Here's an interesting article on Rebound Relationships ;-). I found this pretty interesting and I totally agree that one has to take time to find one's "Soulmate" instead of rushing into the arms of the first person who shows some kinda interest.On the ReboundIn our relationship seminars we frequently hear people ask about "rebound relationships". How do you know if you or someone youre dating

pentium77http://www.blogger.com/profile/00097240595124580031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8664359.post-1130304338590659552005-10-26T10:52:00.000+05:302005-10-26T10:55:38.596+05:30

Currently reading..."Wisdom of Groups" by James Surowiecki. An awesome book overall which talks about power of social groups in business and society.

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I found these rules awesome....Business is made up of ambiguous victories and nebulous defeats. Claim them all as victories.Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask.Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it.Never bring your boss a problem without some solution.You are getting paid to think, not to whine.Long hours don’t mean anything; results count, not effort.Write down

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Here's another great post on Psychology Today on dealing with Sexual Attraction @ the Workplace.http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19920501-000029.htmlI don't think anyone could have written more brilliantly on that topic.

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Here's an interesting article from the NY Times....(Link and Actual Text Provided Below...)My Thoughts..So true. I have myself lived with one such couple and it was an awesome experience. I guess the reason could be sometimes such a couple could be looked upon as Archetypal Parents. So you try to see qualities in them that your parents never had and stuff like that. BTW after reading this

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My first post here....so Hello World !!!

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